Catalogue description Petitioners: William Germain of the Isle of Guernsey. Name(s): Germain, William ...

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Details of SC 8/161/8002
Reference: SC 8/161/8002
Description:
Petitioners: William Germain of the Isle of Guernsey.
Name(s): Germain, William
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Germain requests grace for him and his co-parceners as his grandfather died seised of a bordage of 4 virgates with the service of carrying summonses to another bordage called 'le grant mester' but his heirs were too poor to do the service and the bordage was taken into the king's hand. They are the issue of the heirs and are prepared to do the service.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Guernsey, [Channel Islands]; Saint Peter Port, [Guernsey, Channel Islands].
People mentioned: Henry Everard, grandfather of the petitioner.
Note: The petition is dated to 1311 on the basis of the Chancery warrant in which this petition was probably enclosed (CCW 1244-1326, p.380).
Date: [1311]
Related material:

For a related document, see no.2420 in C 81/83
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.11 (full summary of petition)

Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.380 (mandate to accomplish the petitioner's rights)

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